Hot-rolled band prices rise across the board: SteelBenchmarker

Dec 16, 2009 | 04:54 AM | Scott Robertson

Hot-rolled band prices increased worldwide in the last three weeks, pushed largely by rising input costs.

Hot band prices moved up between 3.4 percent and 4 percent in the United States and world export market, while those in Western Europe and mainland China inched up about 1 percent, SteelBenchmarker said in a Dec. 14 report, released Wednesday.....





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